Robbers Take $1 Million

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August 17, 2002

MARSEILLE, France -- A gang of robbers attacked an armored delivery van in southeastern France on Friday before making off with up to $1 million, officials said. Five or six attackers, driving several vehicles, besieged the truck along a road near the town of Aubagne, police said. The assailants were equipped with a rocket launcher but did not fire it. They used explosives to break the van's locks and seize the cash, according to police. No one was injured in the attack. The gang fled in several vehicles.